Thoughts&Observations | Mangá Vol.37 Part 1/3 (Yugi Mutou VS Yami Bakura Shadow)

I can't believe that this project is already on the penultimate volume...I'm so close to finishing!

(yeah, I like My Little Pony:Friendship is Magic 😎)

What makes it even more unbelievable is this project has around 5 years and 4 months and 8 days with 1 year of hiatus to be precise to this day, it certainly gets me more motivated to finish this, but still too soon to celebrate xD.

Regarding this post itself, as mentioned in the title, volume 6 of Memory World Arc (the penultimate volume of the manga series) will be divided in 3 posts (3 parts) and what a cool way to start with such an important duel to show Yugi's growing maturity and development against the main antagonist shadow, then the next and last duel being the most important of the series and is in the last volume.

Plot Summary:

Hasan informing about the former king last will to Dark Yugi and comes a conversation between Zorc, Hasan, Dark Akhenaden and Dark Yugi...

After the rest of the gang finishing the labyrinth, they enter the next chamber with a bridge to pass through to the other side and on the other side is Yami Bakura shadow spy, Yami Bakura shadow spy challenges them that the only way to pass through is to defeat him in a duel, Yugi accepts the challenge as responsibility of being the host of the pharaoh soul in seeking pharaoh's lost name.

The duel starts with Yami Bakura shadow spy mistakenly underestimating Yugi's skills (like most antoganists and "potential rivals" do 😫 with the exception of Otogi Ryuji 😉), Yugi quickly takes the lead, Yami Bakura shadow spy seeing that he has to step up his game, he makes a very creative terrible combo that introduces a new element in the gameplay of Magic and Wizards/Duel Monsters that we see in the spin-offs (from GX and onward), making it very difficult for Yugi to turn the tables but in the end he will finish with a quick combo to victory in the duel.

Key Points:

 

About why and how the former king made it happen for a spirit to come to the pharaoh's help when he needed and the spirit who calls himself as Hasan reveals the former king last will:

"On his deathbed, the former pharaoh worried that the millennium items might bring disaster to this world...He gave his soul to seal a spirit into a stone tablet...the one you call the tablet of the pharaoh's memories!"

In the post about the birth of the millennium items, he did had a bad feeling about the millennium items for attracting men after the millennium tome they hold, then few years later confronted by Mahado if he knew about the cost and learning about it, so many disappointments and hards choices onward he had to do because he must have sensed that it would fall into his son, so he took priority despite everything to protect the kindgom and his son even for more 3000 thousand years when he was already dead, did he kinda predicted that Dark Yugi would seal his soul and name to seal Zorc? Did he thought much ahead? it's possible that he sought the priest of the millennium tauk for future advice regarding the kingdom and his son (since the time the former king was alive was the one wearing the pendant not Dark Yugi, so she could predict his future),  this might be when was implied about a prophecy that he would inherit the names and power of the egyptian gods came from, so he made preparations for it.

It must have crossed Dark Yugi's mind together with his recent recovery of his past from before to this point making the connections and he couldn't help but to be extremely moved by his father's love and care for his son and kingdom.

As for the spirit Hasan, he is still curious and mysterious character even in terms of lore, could Hasan be the former king's spirit Ka for him to seal in the tablet or someone who was willing to and follow him even in afterlife for the former pharaoh who give his life? it can be either these options...



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Thoughts&Observations | Mangá Vol.36 Part 3/3 (The Betrayal of Akhenaden)

The last part of volume 5 of Memory World Arc, wow, next up will be volume 6, by the way, I might finish the manga series thoughts and observations by the end of June, then comes the reformulation and reorganization of some posts, however I will need my pc being fixed or a new one for the reformulation and reorganization to work (lot of photoshop and my mother's portable doesn't have enough RAM for it, it's just 2 GB and mine before it broken despite being a 3GB of RAM, the photoshop runs a little slow and can't read image resolutions higher than 5000px in photoshop, I need this problem solved before end of June).


Plot Summary:

The Shadow RPG continues, Akhenaden is successful in placing the missing items onto to the tablet of the millennium items and releases Zorc Necrophades and Zorc himself reveals Akhenaden was the creator of the millennium items and came back to complete the contract in performing the shadow alchemy of the creation of the millennium items, asks if he wishes for the dark powers that Zorc himself is willing to borrow him, Akhenaden admits and accepts the offer, then he becomes the high priest of darkness, there is lots of important discussion between Yami Bakura and Dark Yugi.
The gang while thinking of what to do, they take notice of Bobasa transforming as he reveals when all the millennnium items are placed in the millennium stone slab (let's call it this way to make simpler and shorter), his "other self" takes over and is revealed, the same masked man that helped Dark Yugi and introduces himself to the gang as Hasan...he now can give the clue where the pharaoh's lost name is and leaves to protect the pharaoh, Yugi guessed to be inside Dark Yugi's tomb in the Valley of the Kings and is where they're going and the gang on the way to Dark Yugi's royal tomb, Yugi reveals that they're not only inside the world of memory that became later a game world...
Hasan arrives in time to shield the pharaoh while revealing important intel about the gang and the former king, when the gang arrives at the pharaoh's tomb, when Yugi reaches the end of the moving statues labyrinth he sees a very familiar card that hints someone is awaiting for their arrival, Yami Bakura shadow spy...


Key Points:

 

You can tell is a recent awareness for Dark Yugi for the world of memory becoming shadow rpg for even forgotten for awhile that time has stopped and Yami Bakura reminds him, there is also some rules for Dark Yugi that I find curious but also makes sense, the "imperial order" and he can use 5 times per game, if we think about how many times he might have used so far since the game started, I would say thrice (his two authorisations in strengthening the guards in the royal tombs for Mahado, the city for priest Seto and lastly choosing the final battle to be in village of Kul Elna), so now he probably would have two chances now to use...



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Thoughts&Observations | Mangá Vol.36 Part 2/3 (The Shadow RPG)

Entering volume 5 Part 2 of Memory World, this one is much more eventful, there is some complicated and confusing scenes. so it will be a little tough to explain it, because for many might have been a little confusing, to me it was in my first re-reads...so bear with me with some long texts in some key points.



Plot Summary:

Yami Bakura shadow spy explaining the situation in general while the eventual final betrayal of priest Akhenaden is starting to happen, plus the time has stopped moving, meanwhile Yugi and the gang are finding strange that the citizens of the city are not moving while they themselves can move...Yugi realizes that the world of memory is merged with a game world as he looks up to the sky, then transitions to Dark Yugi and Yami Bakura facing each other in a tabletop Shadow RPG, there is discussion about the rules and update on the situation with Dark Yugi and the gang is in and so the rules of the Shadow RPG, finally Akhenaden proceeds to his betrayal and putting the missing items on the tablet of the millennium items...


Key Points:

 

"«world of memory»? You mean...Bakura and Kalim are turning to sand...because this world isn't real?!"

Dark Yugi is being unexpectedly slow about this, it must be with so much going on inside his own memories and information absorbing that he is getting a little absent minded here, if is made of his subconscious memories, of course this dimension isn't real but the memories are, he isn't usually this slow at realizing things, but not that slow after Yami Bakura shadow spy making notice that the time has frozen, he does see that it really doesn't add up, if is a world made of memories, it would flow naturally without being interrupted and unchangeable plus the time wouldn't stop...

 

To make it stranger that time is frozen, Dark Yugi can't move but Akhenaden, also seeing his reaction to this betrayal from Akhenaden...

"Akhenaden! What are you doing with the millennium items? It can't be...!"

He did suspected for his father not knowing about the cost that has been omitted to the former king, it must have been conspirators/traitors within, so in this moment is not just shocked at this moment of betrayal but also that he was the traitor from the creation of the millennium items while being quite hard to believe, is it possible that Dark Yugi by this time knew Akhenaden was his uncle? who knows...


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Thoughts&Observations | Mangá Vol.36 Part 1/3 (The Death of the King of Thieves)

This project has reached finally volume 5 of Memory World and will be divided in 3 posts, starting the first, there isn't much going on except the growth display in Mahado/Black Magician, but he isn't the only one and lore small details...
As for my current situation is still the same...problems might be brewing for my side (more personal) :(, but I should be able to cope with it.



Plot Summary:

As the pharaoh/Dark Yugi restored his fighting spirit and motivation to keep fighting thanks to Mahado/Black Magician clarifying a few things to Dark Yugi in what he needed to know, thief Bakura and his Ka took a powerful blow from Black Magician...but thief Bakura gains advantage again by using the millennium pendant(puzzle) and summoning another Ka to protect the Tablet where the millennium items were forged...the priests arrive the underground shrine except Akhenaden, with the priests aid and Mana, who came along as well to help, the chances to defeat thief Bakura has increased...while Akhenaden slowly climb down the stairs, he sees more vivid images of the ghosts like corpses coming off the ground as if his trauma coming back to haunt him...

Thief Bakura is eventually defeated by the priests and Dark Yugi excelent teamwork, not without a sacrifice on the way to his defeat, priest Kalim did die...suddenly the ones who die strangely turning into sand and Yami Bakura shadow spy appears...


Key Points:

 

Dark Yugi, have you forgotten?so why the surprise? he could do it before when he was fighting you last time and the priests...

What is strange at first is why thief Bakura relies on millennium pendant to summon a second Ka if he could use it with the millennium ring while his "main" Ka was active, but I think I know the answer, Thief Bakura's Diabond Ka absorbed the evil within the millennium ring and made him stronger, it was recent too to absorb all of it, it must have taken time (remember Mahado used for a long time his heka to seal away the evil within the millennium ring, so I suppose it would take time to absorb all of it), while the previous fight he already had his Main Ka active, so he used the millenium ring to summon a second Ka, so now thief Bakura depends on the millennium ring to keep the power boost on his main Ka, so he needs another millennium item to do so, it's not just using his own heka but the heka from the magical items as well, however to summon a Ka cost Ba, since he summoned a second one, he should have become considerably weaker, because it seems summon a second one cost more than the first summon, specially if is a strong one (the previous fight he summon Ka, it was a low-level one, so he wasn't easily tired but in this instance, he gets weaker a little easier because the one protecting the tablet must have a strong defense, so it would cost more Ba than a low-level Ka unlike he did last time...

 

Priest Shada is trying really hard and becoming more dedicated, but you know, it was kinda worth it, he went through it, because it made him becoming more conscious of his job and position as a priest, even though he followed through the idea about Ka-hunt that he feels guilty and regret about it and even more hiding from the pharaoh, but he did with more pure intentions than priest Seto (priest Seto was loyalty mixed with thirst for power to protect the throne and the pharaoh), he is actually pure-hearted person mostly, but he like any other individual, he is also fallible.


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Thoughts&Observations | Mangá Vol.35 Part 4/4 (The Village of Kul Elna)

Now on the last part of Memory World Volume 4, next up is volume 5, looking forward to...

I'm liking this pace I'm going with this project, well I have been trying hard to keep the pace despite the inconvenient situation, I will try my best to keep up...
I have bad news, the hard disk of my pc has broken :(, but the files necessary for this project until the end are saved :), I will continue writting the blog but in my mother's portable PC (I hate portables, I'm a desktop PC person for sure 😠) can be limiting and some small problems for the time being, I hope my pc is on repairable state...

Plot Summary:

Dark Yugi wakes up, while he regains consciousness, he sees in front of him a mysterious masked man, the masked shaped like the head of a sarcophagus with some millenium items marks over his body claiming he watches over all the memories, the pharaoh says he can walk and asks to wait while the mysterious masked man advises the pharaoh to rest since he is still gravely wounded and leaves, Dark Yugi tries to follow him and the entrance and sees is still night...when Dark Yugi decides to follow his advice and wonders how many days he has been unconscious and if the palace is safe, the day arrives after some rest, gets up and still has some difficulties to walk, when he arrives the entrance this time he spots priest Isis's spirit Ka, Spiria and in return spotted by priest Isis using Millenium Tauk with her Ka...

Priest Isis reports to have found the pharaoh and in result is reported to all the priests, most have similar reactions and only one with a very negative reaction that they have found the pharaoh is alive (I wonder who am referring to... 😒), as Priest Shada relieved the pharaoh is alive when meeting up with the pharaoh, he advises him to go back to the palace, however Dark Yugi worried about the citizens safety if the final battle be in the city and the palace so he decides to be in the village of Kul Elna where the guards have found out the thief Bakura's hideout recently...

The pharaoh and priest Shada reach the village of Kul Elna, they sense is a ghost town and can't help what happened to it to be in this state...the guards find a secret entrance underground taking to where thief Bakura is...one of them dies once he reached the hall of the hideout because of the ghosts while trying warn the pharaoh not to come down, the moment thief Bakura hears "pharaoh", he is surprised he survived the fall while at the same time delighted somehow...

When priest Shada and pharaoh arrive the underground, the ghosts start to attack them straight and more strongly but due to the priest Shada's and pharaoh's heka (magic power), they're more resistant but they still struggle withstanding their attacks, while they struggle, thief Bakura reveals the truth about the millenium items about how they were created while conveniently omitting the real culprit...and while Dark Yugi struggle to keep his faith in his father, Mahado shows up as whole spirit in form of Black Magician protecting the pharaoh, so there is a fight more equal ground about outsmarting each other...

Key Points:

 

Before I start writing the following panels, the panels ensemble on the left is nighttime after the masked man advise Dark Yugi to rest since he was badly wounded and the one on the right is daylight...

Panel Ensemble Left....when Dark Yugi asks who is this masked man, he doesn't say his name but simply claims what his role is for the time being...someone who watches all memories, is it truly or is this particular memory merged with the other? And as his marks in his body suggests, he has a powerful connection to the millenium items and according to his claim, he might be related or is the person who created or prepared the world of memory for Dark Yugi... (If you have watched Dark Side of Dimensions, you get the connection straight away), by the way I think is really interesting to see Dark Yugi being so stubborn, despite not being in no conditions to walk properly...it's such a side to him we don't usually see.

Panel Ensemble on the left...Dark Yugi can't help but wonder who is the masked man but by this time he must be suspecting the masked man is connected to creation of the dimension of the world of memory, when Dark Yugi wonders how many days passed since thief Bakura took his millenium puzzle...I would say two or three days to be exact, but I think it was two, since he spent two nights inside this cavern, the night he fallen to the chasm and the night when masked man show up after he just woke up, I wonder how he got inside this cavern, if you go look at the panels when gives evidence the panel ensemble on the left is night time (It's right the moment after Dark Yugi wakes up and being the same night Kisara was brought to the underground), the cavern is on a hill path to the cavern...and inside the cavern to begin with, I think it's possible it might have been the masked man, since he was already badly wounded and almost dizzy before falling anyway, if he had truly fallen to the ground, he would be in worse state, but his wounds he must have hit somewhere before being saved, because look at his clothes and wounds before falling and here after, he gained new wounds and he is covered in dirt and is hurt almost everywhere, I would bet he still tried to hang in there a few times during the fall and roll over a few times and eventually got a concussion then losing conscioness when hit the ground (since he could have slow down the fall, trying to hold on cliffs and hills paths or similar) or by a stone as he tried to prevent himself reach the floor during the fall, I think he might have been saved just in the nick of time by the masked man or the masked man brought him to the cavern when found the pharaoh unconscious, but Dark Yugi understood the masked man is trying to help him.


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Thoughts&Observations | Mangá Vol.35 Part 3/4 (Kisara, The Lady of the White Dragon)

Oh heck yeah, the time I started to write the draft, not at the time I wanted, because of some inconveniences -.-" (partially my fault being an absent minded person), I lost bit of motivation and inspiration to start it *sigh*, damn it, I hate when it happens...

The main focus in the post will be about YGO!lore and Kisara - The White Dragon...

Plot Summary:

The mysterious woman of the white dragon has just recovered and woke up, she is informed why she was in the hospital wing of the palace, the guard then escort her to the underground...while she doesn't arrive,  priest Seto and Akhenaden reaches the underground chamber escorted by a researcher in discovering how to evolve people's Ka and he shows the results and his conclusions in what makes someone's Ka stronger through the prisoners who survived a battle royale between life and death arena with suspension platforms with only abyss under them, priest Seto and Akhenaden are very impressed with the results of the research...
The mysterious woman arrives to the underground prison and priest Seto asks her name and she reveals she is called Kisara, the researcher wonders how is going to torture her to bring out her Ka, priest Seto becomes worried and starting to feel hesitant in bringing her to the suspension platform with the other prisoners and while revealing that she doesn't know about her Ka despite being so powerful that rival the gods, after feeling hesitant he finally agrees with the others in putting her in the suspension platform, the last two surviving from fighting against other 8 prisoners, Kisara not knowing how to summon her own Ka or can't bring it out, she doesn't fight, but priest Seto gets very worried for her life, so he comes after to see if he comes in time to save her, but the moment he reaches her, both of them almost fall, one hand of his holds Kisara's hand and his other hand holding a rope that was suspending the platform they were in and Kisara is unconscious with no signs of summoning the White Dragon...they are almost about to die, when the prisoners's Ka were about to attack, the White Dragon is summoned subconsciously by Kisara in order to shield them and then destroy the prisoners ka's, when priest Seto left the arena holding Kisara and they discuss about these events.


Key Points:

 

This is the time we see her face properly, I think she is very beautiful, she has that mysterious beauty air around her that I like very much (yeah, I like her character design), it's impressive she has been recovering for 4 days since the day she was brought to the hospital wing, in her days of recovery, Pharaoh was gone on the third day, I believe...this hospital wing of the palace looks like more like a prison cell than a hospital and is called "Isolation Tower", the way she calls priest Seto as if making a memo of the person who saved her from those bullies coming from prejudice based on superstitions and her life...


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